AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.